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The archive of the Venetian administration at Ithaca Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Kyriaco Nikias
The Greek state archives recently reopened the local archive at Ithaca. Its prolonged inaccessibility to researchers, and the unclassified and uncatalogued state of most of its records, has meant t...
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Infirmities and invisible ink: enslaved Muslims and magic in Malta, c.1598–c.1608 Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Catherine Rider, Dionisius A. Agius, Gabriel Farrugia
This article examines accusations of magic made against enslaved Muslims in Malta over the period 1598–1608. In this period numerous enslaved Muslims were accused of magic before the Roman Inquisit...
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The Republic of Arabic letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Harun Küçük
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Siren’s song: the news of Tabarka and its impact on Spanish Mediterranean policy in the mid-sixteenth century Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Francesco Caprioli, Rubén González Cuerva
The island of Tabarka, off the northwestern coast of modern Tunisia, was an active coral-fishing factory during the mid-sixteenth century. Its political status was unclear, straddling Tunisian sove...
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Sidi Jdidi I: La basilique sud; Sidi Jdidi II: Le groupe episcopal; Sidi Jdidi III: Des monnaies à l’archéologie Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Daniel Istria
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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The Samians on Ikaria: communities, power, and island networks in the Hellenistic and Roman Aegean Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Matthew P. Evans, Michael Loy
Seven inscriptions from Oine on Ikaria that refer to Samians residing on the island have long been used to argue the case for Samian political control over Ikaria. This article seeks to reassess wh...
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Phoenicians and the making of the Mediterranean Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Corinne Bonnet
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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The making of Syriac Jerusalem: representations of the Holy City in Syriac literature of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Maros Nicak
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Chiselled in rock, printed on paper: Francesco Quaresmio and the epigraphy of the Holy Land Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Estelle Ingrand-Varenne
The substantial two-volume work Terrae Sanctae Elucidatio (1639) by the Franciscan friar Francesco Quaresmio (b. Lodi, Italy, 1583–1656) is known as a veritable encyclopaedia on the Holy Land. It i...
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L’expérience du Levant à l’automne de la Renaissance. Le “Voyage de Constantinople” Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Nadine Kuperty-Tsur
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Knowing like a pilgrim Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Sundar Henny, Richard J. Oosterhoff
This article opens a special issue on ”Pilgrim Knowledge” with a programmatic argument for knowledge-gathering practices as an intrinsic part of pilgrimage in the early modern Mediterranean. It add...
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Travelling in time and space: early modern variations on Burchard of Mount Sion’s Descriptio Terre Sancte Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Jonathan Rubin
Composed in the 1280s by a Dominican friar, Burchard of Mount Sion’s Descriptio Terre Sancte remained an influential account of the Holy Land for centuries. The impact of this text is reflected not...
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Pierre Belon’s singularity: pilgrim fact in Renaissance natural history Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Richard J. Oosterhoff
From the 1540s through the 1570s, some French travellers started to write in a distinctive cosmographical genre of singularités, a term that brought together the exotic and unusual with the factual...
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Pietro Della Valle: Christian pilgrimage, antiquarianism and cosmopolitanism in the age of the Baroque Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Joan-Pau Rubiés
The Roman aristocrat Pietro Della Valle, who defined himself as a pilgrim and as a citizen of the world, can stand as a paradigmatic case of the emergence of the modern curious traveller out of a r...
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Finding Christ in roots and seeds: crucifixes produced by nature in Quaresmio’s Terrae Sanctae Elucidatio Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Lea Debernardi
In his Terrae Sanctae Elucidatio (1639), Francesco Quaresmio devotes a digression to three highly peculiar objects: two plant roots grown into the shape of a crucifix (one of them discovered in the...
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Rereading travelers to the east: shaping identities and building the nation in post-unifiction Italy Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Anthony L. Cardoza
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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A Sephardi Sea: Jewish memories across the modern Mediterranean Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Jessica M. Marglin
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Taming the messiah: the formation of an Ottoman public sphere, 1600–1700 Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Rao Mohsin Ali Noor
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Jewish imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Raanan Rein
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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All the grand dukes’ men: an overview of the Persian information network of Medici Tuscany between 1600 and 1639 Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Davide Trentacoste
This article provides an overview of the Tuscan information network on Safavid Persia, paying particular attention to the first decades of the seventeenth century. Since Tuscany established diplomatic relations with Persia in an anti-Ottoman spirit, the issue of how the grand dukes were able to obtain information on Persia was also of primary importance. This was because important strategic and diplomatic
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Expressly Orient? Britain’s railway-making in pre-colonial Egypt Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Ben Zarhi
Constructed in the 1850s with heavy British involvement, the Egyptian railway was the first to be built in a non-European Mediterranean territory. Britain – which neither financed nor owned this railway – nonetheless came to view it as a British possession. Originally envisioned as a highway for connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and India, the railway became a means unto itself in Britain’s
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The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanīsh and the construction of power in al-Andalus Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Mohamad Ballan
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2023)
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War and religion: Europe and the Mediterranean from the first through the twenty-first centuries Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Brian A. Catlos
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2023)
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How al-Andalus wrapped itself in a silk cocoon: the ṭirāz between Umayyad economic policy and Mediterranean trade Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Eneko Lopez-Marigorta
Sericulture and the state supervision of textile production was a longstanding tradition in the Middle East during the pre-Islamic period. However, neither were known in the Iberian Peninsula. With the rise of Islam, the luxury fabrics produced by the state institution of ṭirāz became a prominent symbol of sovereignty, encouraging the Umayyads of al-Andalus (138 h./756–422 h./1031) to create their
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The story of one acquisition: Hebrew manuscripts from Venetian Candia Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Ilona Steimann
This article focuses on a large group of Hebrew manuscripts that members of the Jewish community in Candia sold to an anonymous Christian in 1541–1543. Not only was selling Jewish books to Christians on such a large scale unusual in the Jewish context, but also many aspects of the acquisition remain unknown. Largely based on the owners’ entries and purchase notes found in the acquired manuscripts and
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Insights from a travel journal: travel knowledge in the late sixteenth-century Mediterranean Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Ana Struillou
This article focuses on the travel journal of Joan Seguí, a Menorcan merchant and slave redeemer apprehended by the Inquisition of Mallorca in 1582. Drawing from this overlooked journal, composed by its owner during his travels to Constantinople and preserved within Inquisition records, the article simultaneously explores what kind of knowledge was necessary for Seguí to travel and trade across the
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Jews and the Mediterranean Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Dario Miccoli
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2023)
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The Habsburg Mediterranean 1500–1800 Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Caleb Karges
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2023)
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Da Venezia al Cairo: Il viaggio di Zaccaria Pagani nel primo Cinquecento Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Juraj Kittler
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2023)
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Societies in transition in early Greece: an archaeological history Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Marco Santini
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2023)
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Visions of deliverance: Moriscos and the politics of prophecy in the early modern Mediterranean Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Claire Gilbert
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2022)
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Aspects of tree veneration around the cult of John the Baptist in medieval Syria and Spain (10th–14th centuries CE) Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Adriano Duque
The practice of tree veneration is often either dismissed as a superstitious “magical” rite or relegated to the realm of idiosyncratic belief. This article proposes a way of understanding tree veneration as a meaningful social practice. Taking the veneration of John the Baptist in Mandean, Christian, and Islamic religion from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries CE, the paper first gives a phenomenological
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Coastal sailing, landscape inspection, and the making of holy sites along the eastern Mediterranean sea-routes Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Michele Bacci
The present paper explores the ways in which holy sites located on the coastal landscape of the Mediterranean were experienced visually by sailors and pilgrims of the late medieval to early modern periods and raises questions as to the different modi whereby holiness was perceived as site-bound, depending on the expectations of the viewer. The focus is on two prominent places encountered in the coastal
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Mapping deserted settlements in the Peloponnese, eighteenth–twentieth centuries: desertion patterns at the end of the Greek Revolution Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Michael Festas, Anna Athanasouli, Dimitris Dimitropoulos
Focusing on the case of the Peloponnese, in southwestern Greece, at the end of the Greek Revolution (1821–1830), this article examines the question of deserted settlements in Greece within its historiographical, conceptual, methodological, and spatial framework. The juxtaposition of population enumerations with other text sources, historical and digital maps, and toponymic research has provided evidence
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Shaping the Acre region in Mandatory Palestine 1917–1948: environmental conditions and conflicting colonial interests Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Anat Kidron
This article examines the formative impact of environmental conditions on spatial policies in the Palestine of the British Mandate government. The article focuses on the Bay area extending from Acre to Haifa, whose southern part was a centre of Mandatory and Zionist economic and urban development, while its northern part, the city of Acre and its environs, was a target of limited urban development
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Port cities of the eastern Mediterranean: urban culture in the late Ottoman Empire Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Sibel Zandi-Sayek
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2022)
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The Greek revolution: a critical dictionary Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Mark Mazower
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2022)
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Olympia: a cultural history Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Antony Spawforth
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2022)
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Reclaiming al-Andalus: Orientalist scholarship and Spanish nationalism, 1875–1919 Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Geoffrey Jensen
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2022)
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The perception of Romans (hrōmāyīg) in the Sasanian and Zoroastrian traditions Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Domenico Agostini
The Sasanian and Roman/Byzantine Empires were protagonists in a harsh military confrontation lasting almost four centuries. However, at the same time they built a sophisticated rhetoric of coexistence and a language of diplomacy to pursue their own political goals. While there are many Roman and Byzantine sources describing the Sasanian world, hardly anything is known about how the Sasanians and Zoroastrians
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Perjury, honour, and disgrace in Roman Antiquity Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Moshe Blidstein
Perjury – swearing to a false statement or not fulfilling a promissory oath – attracted universal condemnation in Antiquity, as well as promises of harsh divine retribution. Human responses to perjury, however, varied among the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean. This article surveys these responses, locates their cultural contexts, and explains them by examining perjury as an affront to honour
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Classification and origins of two types of imitation Andrea Dandolo ducats Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Sarah M. Kampbell
Numismatists have long puzzled over the number of imitation Andrea Dandolo ducats that circulated in the eastern Mediterranean. The minting authority, location, and purpose of these coins has proved elusive. This study distinguishes between multiple types of imitation Andrea Dandolo ducats, focusing on Dandolo Types 1 and 2. A close examination of the coins themselves, including a punch analysis and
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Religious fervour in the Cyclades (1823–1842): seers, discoveries of holy objects, and Protestant missionaries Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Katerina Seraïdari
This article examines a wave of divine interventions on four Cycladic Islands (Tinos, Naxos, Syros, and Santorini) in the 1820s and 1830s. The aim is to understand the social dynamics that created a specific atmosphere of religious fervour in the Aegean during that period and to build an idea of lay practice and lay reaction to the arrival of a Catholic sovereign and Protestant missionaries. Missionaries
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The rise of the Sicilian question in the 1840s: the Italian reaction to geopolitical insecurity in the Mediterranean Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Miroslav Šedivý
During the 1840s Italian society began to see the Mediterranean region as a dangerous place to live, owing to what was regarded as threats represented by Austria, Great Britain, France, and even Russia and the United States. This conviction resulted from various affairs both within and outside Europe, where the same powers were accused of behaving in an overtly aggressive way, which was used as an
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That most precious merchandise: the Mediterranean trade in Black Sea slaves, 1260–1500 Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Joshua M. White
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2022)
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The Captive Sea: slavery, communication, and commerce in early modern Spain and the Mediterranean Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Ali Atabey
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2022)
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Italy’s sea: empire and nation in the Mediterranean, 1895–1945 Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Alexis Rappas
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2022)
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Στη δίνη της Χιακής καταστροφής (1822)· Διασταυρούμενες ιστορίες και συλλογική ταυτότητα [Entangled histories and collective identity: narratives of the Chios Massacre] (1822) Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Gonda Van Steen
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2022)
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Sea change: Ottoman textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Nikolaos Vryzidis
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2022)
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Abortion in early modern Italy Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Naama Cohen-Hanegbi
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2022)
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Εκκρεμείς λογαριασμοί της Ιθάκης με την μεσαιωνική & ενετική Ιστορία (της) [Unsettled accounts between Ithaca and (its) mediaeval & Venetian history] Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Kyriaco Nikias
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2022)
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The story of garum: fermented fish sauce and salted fish in the ancient world Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Susan Weingarten
Published in Mediterranean Historical Review (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2022)
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Mare ORBIS: a network model for maritime transportation in the Roman world Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Scott Lawin Arcenas
This article presents for the first time the maritime transportation model that supports version 2.0 of ORBIS: the Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World. In Part 1, the author demonstrates the extent to which maps misrepresent the lived experience of connectivity (travel, transportation, and communication) in the premodern Mediterranean. In Part 2, he introduces readers to ORBIS, a pioneering
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Collapse, affluence, and collapse again: contrasting climatic effects in Egypt during the prolonged reign of al-Mustanṣir (1036–1094) Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Leigh Chipman, Gideon Avni, Ronnie Ellenblum
The article examines the rapid and frequent transitions between periods of affluence and periods of real famine that occurred during the long reign of the Egyptian ruler al-Mustanṣir (1036–1094), as well as the correlation between these transitions and the fluctuations in the annual rise in the Nile flow which determine the availability of grain and food prices. The authors conclude that: (1) The transitions
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Multilingualism in Venetian Dalmatia: studying languages and orality in written administrative documents from Split (fifteenth/sixteenth centuries) Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Lena Sadovski-Kornprobst
This article addresses the linguistic situation in late medieval Venetian Dalmatia, where a predominantly Slavic-speaking population met an administration working in Latin and the Venetian variant of Italian. On the basis of Venetian archival records, mostly notarial acts and case files, and by examining the city of Split from a micro-historical perspective, two questions are addressed: the first concerns
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Prussia against Rome, 1724–1742: Mathurin Veyssière La Crozeʼs and Giuseppe Simone Assemaniʼs Mediterraneist views on the Nestorians in India* Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Cornel Zwierlein
In 1740 the Roman Church – through its major expert on Oriental languages and regions, Giuseppe Simone Assemani – was censoring Mathurin Veyssière La Croze’s Histoire du Christianisme des Indes, his second work on Christians between the Mediterranean and Ethiopia. This article puts censorship of this book into a global political context: first, of the competition of European powers between Catholics
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Rural producers in the High Court: the struggle for control of olive oil production in Israel, 1950–1953 Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Na‘ama Ben Ze’ev, Gal Amir
From 1950 through 1953, Palestinian olive oil producers in Israel struggled against the state’s efforts to impose discriminatory marketing conditions on them. The confrontation took place under the government’s rationing policy and strict supervision of the Palestinian population, which at the time was subject to military rule. A coalition of state agents and public and private institutions cooperated
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Powering empire: how coal made the Middle East and sparked global carbonization Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Aaron G. Jakes
(2021). Powering empire: how coal made the Middle East and sparked global carbonization. Mediterranean Historical Review: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 279-282.
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The quest for certainty in early modern Europe: from inquisition to inquiry 1550–1700 Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Yosi Yisraeli
(2021). The quest for certainty in early modern Europe: from inquisition to inquiry 1550–1700. Mediterranean Historical Review: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 282-286.
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A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean: early modern conversion, mission and the construction of identity Mediterranean Historical Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Richard Calis
(2021). A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean: early modern conversion, mission and the construction of identity. Mediterranean Historical Review: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 286-288.